Re: Cygwin and the Gtk2 cpan perl module

[Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz users sourceforge net>]

muppet wrote:
>  
> Win32 requires that *all* symbols be resolved at link time.  This  
> places some extra demands on the link stage for perl modules, which  is 
> complicated by the fact that the dll containing the needed gperl*  
> symbols for Gtk2 is actually located in the perl library and not the  
> standard search path.  Also, this is highly non-portable, so it  should 
> be unsurprising that our makefiles don't support it well.  :-/
>
> Yaakov Selkowitz has solved this problem, and keeps cygwin binaries  
> available at http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php? 
> form_cat=229 , although it looks like the current versions there are  a 
> little old.

FYI, I have already built newer versions of all the bindings for the 
current Cygwin perl, but I lack space to post it.  My current ports 
collection almost fills a CD (binary and source packages combined), way 
beyond SF.net's webspace storage limits.  If anyone can suggest an 
alternative for posting, I'd be happy to post what I have.


Yaakov